Member Story:
“Even a Physician Can Use a Good Health Advisor”

I’m a retired physician and a friend recommended we join PinnacleCare prior to my wife’s hip replacement surgery. With PinnacleCare’s help, she had minimally invasive surgery at a leading hospital in New York. PinnacleCare then helped her find a top rehabilitation center near our home and the head of the facility has been very attentive to us. The result was an excellent recovery.

We recommend PinnacleCare to all our friends. Our advisors can be reached at any time, the Medical Intelligence Reports are so useful, and the whole experience is simply unbelievable.

When it came to my own two cardiac catheterizations, PinnacleCare made a huge difference. They took care of everything from securing second opinions to keeping track of all the tests, medical records and appointments — simplifying what could have been a completely overwhelming process.

Yet we experienced the real power of PinnacleCare when we traveled, which we didn’t do for years for fear of getting ill. When we went to St. Thomas and then later to Naples, Florida. PinnacleCare provided us with detailed pre-trip plans, including a list of excellent local specialists. For the first time in years, we could travel with peace of mind.

We recommend PinnacleCare to all our friends. Our advisors can be reached at any time, the Medical Intelligence Reports are so useful, and the whole experience is simply unbelievable. They’ve shown us that even a physician can use good health advisors.

The firm is now allowing its entire adviser force to refer clients to PinnacleCare, which also created a new elder-care assessment… Many advisers feel that dealing with elder-care issues isn’t their responsibility. But as clients age, “you’re going to be doing this whether you want to or not.”

In a time of serious illness, these advocates can help research new treatments that doctors may not know a lot about, cut through the medical bureaucracy, and perhaps help frame medical decisions more objectively than stressed out patients and their family members. Advocates are not just there to help you heal but also to keep you healthy.

— Anne Tergesen, “Your Guide to the Medical Maze”

Consider hiring a private patient advocate… It could help get you the care you need.

— Judy Foreman, “For when a doctor and a nurse just aren’t enough”

“Pinnacle provided me with a name and with research that said, ‘here’s how other people are going it, and here’s who has the most long-term survivors, and here are their stories.’ What I got from that was hope. Not a bad return on investment.”

— Gregory Taggart, “Deluxe Health Care”

“I always thought the medical staff would return phone calls, answer questions and discuss treatment plans and options. I was wrong.” So the family turned to…PinnacleCare for help. Within one day, a doctor on the company’s staff reviewed her mother’s medical records and set up a conference call with a neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins and a neurologist from Rush University Medical Center, who agreed to take on the case. “We needed someone on our side.”